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Brief update
Nov. 4th, 2024 05:28 pm1. Josh has spent the past two weekends traveling back to Jackson to engage a realtor and a company that does estate sales. This most recent weekend was devoted to making sure he'd gotten absolutely everything out of the house the family wants. The sale should start this Wednesday, and then the house goes on the market.
We don't expect to make any money out of this; part of the estate sale service is that the company clears out and cleans out the house, so this means that Josh never has to go back there again and that we don't have to deal with anything in that house ever again.
The realtor feels pretty confident the house will sell, so it could happen as quickly as December, but I think the spring semester is more realistic. It's always been my goal to have him to TN by the end of the spring semester, so any time sooner than that is a win.
2. Halloween: Fiona wore a replica of Scarlett's dress from the barbecue scene and had her hair up in ribbons. It was perfect weather, didn't even need a jacket, and much candy was obtained.
3. After I asked you all for self-care recs, one of the things I did was buy some incense. And, y'all, it is glorious. Like OMG. It smells expensive, it is packaged beautifully--can't rec enough: Optatum Cedarwood and Hinoki.
4.
Second Reading: Notable and Neglected Books Revisited by Jonathan Yardley
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I haven't read most of the books that Yardley reviews in this collection, but seeing where our opinions diverge and coincide on books I have read is interesting. And reading this book has made my to-read list a bit longer. :)
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5.
Love-Acre: An Idyl in Two Worlds by H. Havelock Ellis
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Goodreads incorrectly attributes this book to Havelock Ellis when it was actually written by his wife, Edith Ellis.
It is an incredibly mystical and allegorical book that follows the short life of a young man who is in touch with the supernatural and maligned and misunderstood as a result.
I have to admit that I have a hard time understanding just what Ellis intends to convey through Tobias's story. The condemnation of Christian hypocrisy is clear to me as is the condemnation of small-town politics and small-mindedness. But what she intends to say through his commune with fairies or his mystical communications with blades of grass, I'm much less sure about.
The novel reminds me a lot of Kingsley's The Water-Babies, not for messaging, but for sheer weirdness of content.
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I read this book for the VPFA's Third Sex Reading Group. I have to say that I do not understand how this fits into theme of the reading group--there's no queer content that I can discern. I'll report back after our meeting.
We don't expect to make any money out of this; part of the estate sale service is that the company clears out and cleans out the house, so this means that Josh never has to go back there again and that we don't have to deal with anything in that house ever again.
The realtor feels pretty confident the house will sell, so it could happen as quickly as December, but I think the spring semester is more realistic. It's always been my goal to have him to TN by the end of the spring semester, so any time sooner than that is a win.
2. Halloween: Fiona wore a replica of Scarlett's dress from the barbecue scene and had her hair up in ribbons. It was perfect weather, didn't even need a jacket, and much candy was obtained.
3. After I asked you all for self-care recs, one of the things I did was buy some incense. And, y'all, it is glorious. Like OMG. It smells expensive, it is packaged beautifully--can't rec enough: Optatum Cedarwood and Hinoki.
4.
Second Reading: Notable and Neglected Books Revisited by Jonathan YardleyMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
I haven't read most of the books that Yardley reviews in this collection, but seeing where our opinions diverge and coincide on books I have read is interesting. And reading this book has made my to-read list a bit longer. :)
View all my reviews
5.
Love-Acre: An Idyl in Two Worlds by H. Havelock EllisMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Goodreads incorrectly attributes this book to Havelock Ellis when it was actually written by his wife, Edith Ellis.
It is an incredibly mystical and allegorical book that follows the short life of a young man who is in touch with the supernatural and maligned and misunderstood as a result.
I have to admit that I have a hard time understanding just what Ellis intends to convey through Tobias's story. The condemnation of Christian hypocrisy is clear to me as is the condemnation of small-town politics and small-mindedness. But what she intends to say through his commune with fairies or his mystical communications with blades of grass, I'm much less sure about.
The novel reminds me a lot of Kingsley's The Water-Babies, not for messaging, but for sheer weirdness of content.
View all my reviews
I read this book for the VPFA's Third Sex Reading Group. I have to say that I do not understand how this fits into theme of the reading group--there's no queer content that I can discern. I'll report back after our meeting.
